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Show WWM A Lale Arrival and Fresh Reports From the New l'A Dorado in Western Utah. Gleaming Glades of Glittering Galena They Are Sbovoling Up On the Surface of the Ground. tons of high grade ore on the dump and plenty more of it it sight as the owners are just shoveling it out of the different shafts and ;iind it still continuing; as they go down. Chipman & Grant have recently purchased a one-third interest in this prospect for a big price. When Mr. Kearney visited; the mine he fond that several shafts ' had been sunk on the lode for a distance of 700 feet. None of these were over ten feet deep, but all of them showed the same general gen-eral character of rich mineral. ASSAVS MADE. Soma assays that the owners have had made show the average of the ore as near as they could get it without a MONTE CRI8T0 DEEAM3 EEALIZED. A Thirty Thousand Found Con-Hignineiit Con-Hignineiit of Ore I J'.n Koiite and will Arrive Tomorrow. This Time It I Horn Silver Coming From a Vein Sixteen Inches Wide. LOW CRADE HORN SILVER (I) HOW? The Hill. Arm Corsred With Proipaotors ttoli sod tin Sound of llainuiera t ill lb Air with Mualo. There is fire in the air and every gentle breeze that sighs across the desert des-ert wafting the Stillest bit of gossip from Deep creek only adds heat to tne glowing enthusiasm. Every man who comes from the mines, whether recently or remotolv, is at once cornered and made to tell all he know s. It would have been apparent to the most phlegmatic temperament, could he have visited the rotundas of the various var-ious hotels in the city last night, that something of more moment than current cur-rent gossip was the subject of comment and conversation. There were tho first premonitory symptoms observed that characterized Colorado during the first years of the Leadville excitement in '78 and '7!, and which rilled every vein w ith tingling pulses. Tho embers which are now smouldering in every breast only need the faintest suspicion of a stirring wind to fan them into the liercest tlames. Gray haired old patriarchs are again being thrilled with the mill run, to be close to 7(H) ounces in silver with a high grade of lead, probably prob-ably 50 per cent. OTHER MINES. There are other mines in the district which show flattering prospects and high grade ore, even though the development devel-opment is only limited. Some of these are the Utah, the Fish Springs. Wedge and others. The Fish Springs has an immense contact of carbonate of iron running low in silver but high in iron. KOl'K MII.ES SQUARE. The mineral bearing area so far as it has been prospected, is known to be at least four miles square; but some promising prom-ising discoveries have ben mado five or six-miles south of these limits, but whether or not they are part of the same mineral belt is'not known at this time, ISLANDS IN THE SEA. From the different prospectors from whom information has been gleaned from time to time, it is learned that the topography of the country, and the way the mountains jut up in the desert, resemble re-semble nothing so much as immense islands. is-lands. Along the lower rims of these, the marks of the water level at three or four different periods is plainly discern-able; discern-able; all of which gives rise to the general gen-eral supposition that the great Salt lake once covered the entire country, the mountains of the different districtsonce being isles in the sea, similar to Antelope Ante-lope island in the lake of today. THE ROADS AKE Dl.'STV. From the latest arrivals it is learned that the road across the desert is now in splendid shape aud is very dusty. MI ST TAKE PROVISION'S. Prospectors who are contemplating ftoing to the new mineral empire, must tear in mind that they are going to a barren country as far as any facilities capacity of the pumps to handle it. the management may cousider the advisability advisa-bility of running' to -make a connection with the tunnel, thereby hastening the time of its completion and relieving the mine of the great expense of pumping. Mining Kxchaneja. Tom Carter again got in bis deadly graft on the business of the exchange by bringing bad weather, and the sale suffered in sympathy. There is now a unanimous desire among brokers that he perfect the organization of his Afr riran expedition and start farthe Mountains Moun-tains of the Moon at once. Mammoth and Crescent showed greater strength than yesterday, but the advance in the former is making but slow strides. The sales were the lightest in three weeks. TODAY'S Vl'OTATlONH. STOCKS. 23 j A r Alice 1 70 Alliance 3 fx 1 An-hor tt tt AjK'X I'H J li.iines Sulnh'r el1, HlK 11. lie 1'l.u 'r 117'., Cent-Eureka 59 0O Cnliv' 'JO descent 810 XI 34 :ci Daly lssS'i Glenroe 4 yo Horn Silver. . 3 'ill Malait li'.' Mammoth M0 8 W 3 TO S M Northern Spy I b i Ontario .10 M) Stanley K I'. I.. C.Co 8 flail O I - ul WihkMiIh g nil Silver rertlfs ? Total shared sold. I J10 sales op stock. I'. 0 shares of Crescent, iff f.'n. i'.ai 3ii;. !'i " " Muni'uothft t 1.70. 10U J:l.f0. lire of their early manhood and are shaking out the kinks in their limbs in an effort to persuade themselves that they are as equal to the emergency, should it arise, as they were year ago when they were argonauts. A I.ATE AKKIVAL. One of tho latest arrivals from the Deep Creek districts is Mr. Joe i'errin, who is well known here as a man having hav-ing a cool brain and a temperate discernment. dis-cernment. Those who know him best say that his greatest fault (if it is one) is that he is too conservative that he is prone to be a bear rather than a bull on mining propositions. After paying a visit to Sam Gilson's bonanza, he says "that without any exaggeration or wild flight of fancy, there is from $7.ri,000 to $100,000 worth of ore exposed in the liuckhorn mine at this time." That of itself is wonderful. ANOTHER LATE AliKIVAL. F. J. Kearney came in from Fish Springs district last night, bringing with him such splendid reports of the way the mines there are improving with development as to be almost fabulous fabu-lous and incredible. Mr. Kearney has lived in thn Deep Creek, mountains since '74 and is espeoially familiar with tho miues of Clifton, Fish and Willow Springs, he having a ranch at the latter place. At Clifton there are not many miners at present as all have joined iu the gathering throng which is poiug to the bonanza fields of Fish and Dugwny districts. There has beeh, however, from 100 to ino miners working off and on in Clifton all winter, where some very good leads have been found, which would be abundantly abun-dantly remunerative if they only had either mills or railroads. 'High grade ores have not been found in such quan- for supporting themselves are concerned. con-cerned. They must take blankets, grub, tools and money, although the first three commodities are the most essential. es-sential. Nothing can be purchased there, as no stores or hotels have been established, except at Fish Springs, where there is a ranch having limited accommodations. ANOTHER HEI'OKT. The American Fork Independent hag gotten out a special advance sheet giving giv-ing tho following information: "Keports have been coming in from the Fish Spriugs mining district about as frequent and unreliable as election returns in an off year. Mr. James Chipman aqd party were determined to know the correct state of affairs and accordingly set out on the 2nd instant for that disrrict. After two days' journey jour-ney they arrived at their destination. They found things away beyond their expectations. The worth of the district cannot be exaggerated, but bas always been under-estimated THIKTV THOUSAND I'OUNDS OF ORE. The most notable prospects in the district are the Galena and F.mma. The former claim is owned by Messrs. Chip-man, Chip-man, Grant, Parr anil Van Alstine, Chipman and Grant owning 10'iU feet of the lode, and Parr and Van Alstine 450 feet. Messrs. Chipman and Grant own 000 feet and James Preston and L. Kul-kowsky Kul-kowsky own 000 feet each of the Emma lode. Thirty thousand pounds of the Galena ore will be brought into American Fork Tuesday, and there are about ten tons more on tho dump. The Fimma has also about ten tons on the dump, but no shipments have as yet been made from it. Lir ivrlita nirunuv unrtD Prk City rr.Rriiph, Operations on the Glencoe are bound to bring out the country east of the Ontario On-tario in the near future. The Glencoe's phenomenal ore body will prove a spur to quite a number of claim owners in that vicinity and the result will be much development work on their properties. Capital will bo induced to lake bold and the outcome is easily guessed two or three mines equal to if not better than the Glencoe, will be found. Preparations are being mado to sink a shaft on the Gopher, located on Treasure hill, as soon as the snow gets out of the way. This is considered a valuable claim and its owners expect to find ore this summer. It has all the surface indications of proving rtch, besides be-sides being so located that ore is found on three sides of it for a distance of U00 feet. Tho abaft will be first class and sunk for the purpose of proving the ground. The Hecord. Mammoth I'roipanli. William Mclntyre returned yesterday from Tintic, where he had been for the purpose of making an exhaustive examination exam-ination of the workings of the Mammoth Mam-moth mine. He gives the information that the property seldom looked better and that the output for this month would probably be the largest that has been made in some time. There are reserves in the mine sufficient to keep tho production up to its present limits for a long time even if developments are not extended. The ore is jmt as high grade as it ever averaged, and there is apparently no reason for the depreciation of the stock, as there are more than a years dividends assured from the ore blocked out and the surplus sur-plus which is in the treasury. Cnacantratlona. Shrewd old prospectors are talking on but one subject that is mining. A vein of mineral is being exploited on the mountain sides near Ogden which runs from $15 to $18 a ton in gold and silver. Some rich ore has been found near Homansvllle, in the Tintic district, on the Monte Cristo claim, from which assays as-says have been made running nearly 700 ounces in silver. Prospecfors are crazy to get to the mines of Deep Creek, and every day sees two or three parties outfitting. titles in Chiton as some of the other districts, dis-tricts, but from some of his own properties prop-erties he has assays as high as iiOOO ounces. FISH. SPRINGS DISTRICT. The Galena mine which attracted so much attention two weeks ago on ac-; ac-; count of having made a shipment of ore I which milled 178 ounces in silver and : 08 percent lead, is opening up in a way I to exceed the most extravagant expec-; expec-; tations of its owners. Mr. Kearney visited the mine last Saturday and I what he says of it is taken from obser-) obser-) vations he made at that time. When the vein was first struck, it only showed ' an inch and a half streak, but now after i following it down to a depth of twenty l feet it discloses a width of eight feet of I nearlv solid galena. The ore from j it looks better than ever; but in addi- tion to the rich land, there has appeared on the. hanging wall a six-inch vein of j horn silver, some of it being so pure as to be susceptible of being bent like a piece of whalebone. There are' eighteen t ins of the high grade production of this mine now on tine road, and it will probably reach American Fork some lime tomorrow. SACKS WEIGH TWO HUNDRED POUNDS. The mineral taken from the mine is the heaviest that Mr. Kearney had ever seen, the sacks weighing from ItiO to 'Joo pounds each. After the teams now on the way were loaded, there was still more than ten tons left on the dump. Three teams were met on the road going go-ing out for more ore. On the Galena and I'tah, which are supposed to be on the same contact, tho vein has been stripped for a distance of over one thousand feet, showing up the gams rich contact all the way. Grant & Chipman are engaging alt the teams 1 hey can get, and are paying thorn J'.Mi.OO a ton for transportation to the The Galena shaft is fifteen feet deep and has a four-foot vein of ore, with six inches of horn silver ore next to talc on font wall. The Emma shaft is six feet down on the vein, which is about six feet in width. The ore bodies lie between lime and pophyry the hanging hang-ing wall being lime. If the vein holds out, and the present pres-ent indications are that it will, the owners of the Galena will be able to employ from fifty to one hundred teams steadily hauling ore. GOING TO MAKE SAM G1LSON ASHAMED. Messrs. Chipman & Grant are also interested in many other claims which show equally as well as the Galona and Fimma. and will push development work on them as rapidly as possible. Ore has been taken from some of these claims which can make Sam Gil-son Gil-son ashamed of his much talked-of bonanza. bo-nanza. Any person doubting the value of the ore can be convinced of its worth bv calling at Mr. James Chip-man's Chip-man's office, American F'ork, where ho will be shown the silver as it is taken from the mines. The belt mineral is nearly all taken up by the prospectors who have flocked into the district. No better field for the investment of capital can be found, and no doubt a great many bonanzas will be developed iu the Fish Springs this season, Ontario .No. a Shaft. No. 2 shaft' of the Ontario is now down 1515 feet and the station is being cut for the pump. No cross cutting for the vein was done on the 1400-level, and it is not likely that any will be done on the 1000 until the water has somewhat subsided. The shaft has now gotten down to the level at which the long drain tunnel will strike it when it reaches the vein. In case the water does not increase in flow beyond the The first sawbuek saddie was seen on the street yesterday. Three feet of ore has been opened up in a new tuunel at the north end of the Buckeye mine in Bingham, assays from which go 111 ounces in silver, 35 per oent lead and$:i to i0 in gold. Work has commenced on shoveling out the road to the mines on York hill in Bingham, and it is anticipated that shipments from them will be resumed before the expiration of this week. A big vein of five feet wide of copper ore has been struck in the Dixie mine near St. George. The owners anticipate antici-pate that it will run from 33 to 50 per cent in copper, and they are now getting get-ting out several car loads for a test shipment. The body of ore is found in a tunnel which cuts the vein 1J00 feet below its apex. The road to the Ontario has been nearly shoveled out so as to make it passable for tennis, which will be hauling haul-ing ore over it again iu a few days. Owing to the capacity of the mill for storiug a large surplus ahead in case of contingencies arising, it has been working work-ing right along and has mado its usual production, and still has enough ore on hand to keep it working for several weeks. railroad at American hork. Should the . production hold up to anything like its I present value, they promise to increase I this compensation to $30. j AN ASSAYER ENGAGED. i Being desirous of testing all the kind9 j of mineral produced, an assayer has ' been encaged and is now putting in a luruace at the mine. rKOSI'KCTOItS GOING IN. On the outward trip, fifteen teams loaded down with prospectors and their supplies were met. There aro now close to 1000 men in the dis-irict. dis-irict. and their tents whiten every hill, while their camp fires at night glow and twinkle in an hundred different placts like a military encampment, i Preston and Kulkowsky are working or the Kmma mine, which is one of the biggest i.f tiie recently discovered prospects pros-pects in the fields of the new F)l Dorado. The Emma is on a ditlerent and paral-tel paral-tel vein to the Galena, being southeast of it more than a thousand leet. in the work so far prosecuted, galena and carbonate car-bonate ore is shown scattered all over the surface for a distance of 00x100 feet although the vein is a contact between limestone aud porpyry and can be traced on the surface "for quite a distance. dis-tance. There is now fifteen or twenty |